Music-holder



F. L. TRIPP.

Musm HOLDER.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan. 4, 1887..

PATENT Erica FEEEMAhT L. TRIPP, OF EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN.

Music-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 355,358, dated January a, 1887.

Application filed April 2:2, 1886. Serial No. 199.827'. (Xo model.)

.T 0 @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREEMAN L. Tnrrr, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Eau' Claire, in the county of Eau Claire and lState of Visconsin, have invented a new and use-` ful Improvement in Music-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in music-holders; and it consists of the peculiar and novel construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The object 0f my invention is to provide an improved music-holder that can be applied very easily and quickly to a piano or organ of any design or construction by.an unskilled person, to provide means which shall be very cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, simple, strong, and durable in construction, and thoroughly effective and reliable in operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of so much of an organ or piano as is necessary for a full and proper understanding of my invention, showing the device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached detailed view of the parts 0f my improved music-holder.-

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters 0f reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, A designates the music-book rack'of a piano or organ, showing so much of the said rack as is necessary for a proper understanding of my invention, and having a shelf or ledge, c, extending outwardly at an angle therefrom, as is usual in this class of devices.

Myimproved holder consists of a supporting-bracket, B, a yielding or elastic holdingarm, C, held in proper place by the bracket B, and a retaining-bracket, D, the peculiar construction of which I will now proceed to describe in detail.

The holding or supporting bracket B is cast in a single piece of metal, aud is of any desired or preferred form or design, and the saidl bracket is provided with one or more screwholes, I), for the passage therethrough of the screws to secure it to the shelf or ledge a of the rack A, and the said bracket is further provided with a perforated lug, "b, to form a socket for one endof the spring holding-arm C, which is journaled therein. The holdingarm C is curved longitudinally, as shown, and at one endit is provided with one or more coils, c, that gives thereto its spring action, and leaves one end free to provide an arm, c', which is journaled in the perforated lug or socket 0f the supporting plate 0r bracket B, and the opposite free end of the spring-holding arms C is bent or curved to provide 'au arm, c2, that is adapted to bear against the leaves of themusic or other book that is to he held in place. The retaining-bracketD is also made in a single piece of metal, and it is of any desired or preferred form or design, and itis also provided with a right-angled plate, D', which has two outwardly-projecting lugs, d, arranged at opposite ends and on oppositev sides of the edges of tlie said right-angled plate D', as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The supporting-bracket B is secured to the outer edge of the shelf or ledge a of the rack A, and the retaining-bracket D is likewise secured to the shelf a, but at some distance from the bracket B, after which the arm c of the spring-arm C is fitted or journaled in the perforated lug of the bracket B, while the free end c2 thereof is fitted between the lugs d of the retaining-bracket C.

When it is desired to hold the leaves of a book or other like article extended, so as to be easily and conveniently read by a performer seated at the instrument to which my invention is applied, the free end of the spring holding-arm C is disconnected from the retaining-bracket D and turned to bear against the leaves of the music-book, and when the book Y is removed from the instrument the holdingarm is again fitted in the lugs 0f the retaining-bracket.

The brackets are secured in place by means of screws or other like devices, and the spring holdin g-arm is preferably made of stout spring Wire and detachably secured in place by the supporting-bracket.

The device is to be manufactured and sold separate from the organ or piano as an article of c manufacture, or it is applied to the instrument at the time of its manufacture.

Having thus described .my invention, what I claim isi l. A music-holder comprising a supportingbracket, a yielding holding-arm detachably secured in the said bracket, and a retainingbracket for the reception of the free end of the holding-arm When the same is not in use7 substantially as described.

2. The combination of the supporting-bracket, the spring holding-arm having one end journaled therein, and the retaining-bracket having the lugs for the reception of the free end of the arm, substantially as described.

3.V The combination of the supportingbracket having the lug, and the spring holding-arm having a coiled end and journaled in the lng of the bracket and adapted to bear against the music atits free end,substantially as described.

4. The combination of the supporting-brack- Y FREEMAN L. TRPP.

Witnesses:

R. H. CHUTE, A. R. BERGH. 

